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THE ORGANIZATION
The Center for Justice Innovation is a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice. Since our founding in 1996, the Center has partnered with community members, courts, and the people most impacted to create stronger, healthier, more just communities. Our decades of experience in courts and communities, coupled with our field-leading research and practitioner expertise, help us drive justice nationwide in innovative, powerful, and durable ways. For more information on how and where we work, please visit www.innovatingjustice.org.
The Center is a 900-employee, $130 million nonprofit that accomplishes its vision through three pillars of work: creating and scaling operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performing original research to determine what works (and what doesn’t), and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to justice reformers around the world.
Operating Programs
The Center’s operating programs, including the award-winning Red Hook Community Justice Center and Midtown Community Justice Center, test new ideas, solve difficult problems, and attempt to achieve systemic change within the justice system. Our projects include community-based violence prevention programs, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based initiatives that reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration and promote positive individual and family change. Through this programming, we have produced tangible results like safer streets, reduced incarceration, and improved neighborhood perceptions of justice.
Research
The Center's research teams are staffed with social scientists, data analysts, and lawyers who are academically-trained or have lived experience and who conduct research in the U.S. and globally on diverse criminal-legal system and justice issues. Their work includes evaluating programs and policies; conducting exploratory, community-based studies; and providing research translation and strategic planning for system actors. The Center has published studies on topics including court and jail reform, ******** partner violence, restorative justice, gun violence, reentry, sixth amendment rights, and progressive prosecution. The research teams strive to make their work meaningful and actionable to the communities they work with, policymakers, and practitioners.
Policy & Expert Assistance
The Center provides hands-on, planning and implementation assistance to a wide range of jurisdictions in areas of reform such as problem-solving courts (e.g., community courts, treatment courts, domestic violence courts), tribal justice, reducing incarceration and the use of fines/fees and reducing crime and violence. Our current expert assistance takes many forms, including help with analyzing data, strategic planning and consultation, policy guidance, and hosting site visits to its operating programs in the New York City area.
Center Support
A dedicated support team within the Center ensures the smooth functioning of operations across various domains, including finance, legal, technology, human resources, fundraising, real estate, and communications. Comprising 15% of the organization's staff, these teams provide essential infrastructure support and innovative solutions aligned with the Center's mission and values.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Finance Department is seeking a Budget Analyst. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, the Budget Analyst will manage a portfolio of government grants and contracts, including budget and forecast preparation and analysis, ensuring compliance with government contract regulations, invoice and expense review, reconciliation, and financial reporting.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Manage program grants, contracts, revenue, expenditures, and compliance;
Analyze program costs and variances to budget and forecast;
Review monthly accounting close and submit adjusting journal entries as needed;
Produce monthly program forecasts to project revenue and expenses for both line-item reimbursement and performance-based grant contracts;
Work with Project Directors to develop budgets and forecasts for revenue and operating expenses;
Manage relationships and reporting to government agencies and other funders;
Function as a liaison to the Center’s parent organization to ensure accurate programmatic and grant/project income and expense reporting and compliance;
Work with the Development department to prepare and review budgets for submission in response to requests for proposals;
Review and approve vendor invoices, staff allocations, and expense reports; and
Other relevant duties, as assigned.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field and a minimum of 3 years of work experience with budgets and grants/contracts. Other qualifications include:
Experience in nonprofit and/or government accounting, including grant and contract accounting, compliance, and reporting strongly preferred;
Candidate must be extremely detail-oriented and have familiarity with basic accounting principles and financial/accounting systems;
Advanced proficiency in Excel required;
Prior experience with Coupa and Vena preferred
Experience in prioritizing projects, meeting deadlines, and initiating follow-through with meticulous attention to detail and high-level accuracy both individually and in a team setting;
Solid analytical capabilities and strong writing skills; and
Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain working relationships with staff, partner agencies, funders, and all other internal and external workforces at all levels with utmost professionalism.
Position Type: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Hybrid schedule with 2 days required in person per week.
THE ORGANIZATION
The Center for Justice Innovation is a community justice organization that centers safety and racial justice. Since our founding in 1996, the Center has partnered with community members, courts, and the people most impacted to create stronger, healthier, more just communities. Our decades of experience in courts and communities, coupled with our field-leading research and practitioner expertise, help us drive justice nationwide in innovative, powerful, and durable ways. For more information on how and where we work, please visit www.innovatingjustice.org.
The Center is a 900-employee, $130 million nonprofit that accomplishes its vision through three pillars of work: creating and scaling operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performing original research to determine what works (and what doesn’t), and providing expert assistance and policy guidance to justice reformers around the world.
Operating Programs
The Center’s operating programs, including the award-winning Red Hook Community Justice Center and Midtown Community Justice Center, test new ideas, solve difficult problems, and attempt to achieve systemic change within the justice system. Our projects include community-based violence prevention programs, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based initiatives that reduce the use of unnecessary incarceration and promote positive individual and family change. Through this programming, we have produced tangible results like safer streets, reduced incarceration, and improved neighborhood perceptions of justice.
Research
The Center's research teams are staffed with social scientists, data analysts, and lawyers who are academically-trained or have lived experience and who conduct research in the U.S. and globally on diverse criminal-legal system and justice issues. Their work includes evaluating programs and policies; conducting exploratory, community-based studies; and providing research translation and strategic planning for system actors. The Center has published studies on topics including court and jail reform, ******** partner violence, restorative justice, gun violence, reentry, sixth amendment rights, and progressive prosecution. The research teams strive to make their work meaningful and actionable to the communities they work with, policymakers, and practitioners.
Policy & Expert Assistance
The Center provides hands-on, planning and implementation assistance to a wide range of jurisdictions in areas of reform such as problem-solving courts (e.g., community courts, treatment courts, domestic violence courts), tribal justice, reducing incarceration and the use of fines/fees and reducing crime and violence. Our current expert assistance takes many forms, including help with analyzing data, strategic planning and consultation, policy guidance, and hosting site visits to its operating programs in the New York City area.
Center Support
A dedicated support team within the Center ensures the smooth functioning of operations across various domains, including finance, legal, technology, human resources, fundraising, real estate, and communications. Comprising 15% of the organization's staff, these teams provide essential infrastructure support and innovative solutions aligned with the Center's mission and values.
THE OPPORTUNITY
The Finance Department is seeking a Budget Analyst. Reporting to the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis, the Budget Analyst will manage a portfolio of government grants and contracts, including budget and forecast preparation and analysis, ensuring compliance with government contract regulations, invoice and expense review, reconciliation, and financial reporting.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Manage program grants, contracts, revenue, expenditures, and compliance;
Analyze program costs and variances to budget and forecast;
Review monthly accounting close and submit adjusting journal entries as needed;
Produce monthly program forecasts to project revenue and expenses for both line-item reimbursement and performance-based grant contracts;
Work with Project Directors to develop budgets and forecasts for revenue and operating expenses;
Manage relationships and reporting to government agencies and other funders;
Function as a liaison to the Center’s parent organization to ensure accurate programmatic and grant/project income and expense reporting and compliance;
Work with the Development department to prepare and review budgets for submission in response to requests for proposals;
Review and approve vendor invoices, staff allocations, and expense reports; and
Other relevant duties, as assigned.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or related field and a minimum of 3 years of work experience with budgets and grants/contracts. Other qualifications include:
Experience in nonprofit and/or government accounting, including grant and contract accounting, compliance, and reporting strongly preferred;
Candidate must be extremely detail-oriented and have familiarity with basic accounting principles and financial/accounting systems;
Advanced proficiency in Excel required;
Prior experience with Coupa and Vena preferred
Experience in prioritizing projects, meeting deadlines, and initiating follow-through with meticulous attention to detail and high-level accuracy both individually and in a team setting;
Solid analytical capabilities and strong writing skills; and
Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to maintain working relationships with staff, partner agencies, funders, and all other internal and external workforces at all levels with utmost professionalism.
Position Type: Full-time, Monday-Friday, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. Hybrid schedule with 2 days required in person per week.
💡 Quick Summary
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Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Accountant Jobs is a plus.
